4/21/10 The Black Death Notes

• The Black Death was in the 14th century
• This plague claimed over 20 million lives in only 2 years
• It was carried in the bloodstream of black rats
• They would throw bodies to their enemies
• They hurled these plague infected bodies over Catha's walls
• These people began to die within days
• This encounter in Sicily was not enough for the black death to be exposed in Europe
• Churches were the places of learning without questions
• Since nobody knew where this came from they turned to the Church for answers
• Black Blisters would appear on his body and grow
• They would be dead within four days
• They thought this was God paying them back for all the sins of the world
• They would have plague pits because there was no more room to bury people
• The entire town would be exposed after a couple days of an infected ship docking
• In 1345 on March the 20th three planets lined up which signifies death
• They arranged big fires so the Pope would not be infected
• No rat or flea could penetrate this intense heat
• Shiliak gave a correct prognosis of the disease
• This killed a third of Europe's population
• There is a nursery rhyme for the Black Death